Woman Pepper-Sprayed While Trying To Stop Robbery

Anne Arundel County Police are looking for the woman in the foreground of this photo for shoplifting from a cosmetics store in Annapolis. An accomplice is wanted for pepper-spraying two employees.

Anne Arundel County Police are looking for two women accused of a shoplifting incident that involved two employees being pepper-sprayed.

According to police, a woman shoplifted about $1,000 worth of fragrances from the Ulta Beauty cosmetics store in the Harbor Center shopping plaza at 2566 Solomons Island Road in Annapolis around 3:37 p.m. Friday.

After the woman left the store, an employee confronted her and tried to grab the bag with the stolen goods.

Police say that's when another woman waiting outside the store pepper-sprayed the employee.

The employee received treatment at the scene before being taken to a hospital for more treatment.

The store manager was also pepper-sprayed but refused medical treatment.